02353cam a22002657 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100002100069245013500090260006600225490004100291500001800332520120200350530006101552538007201613538003601685690008401721690007001805700002101875710004201896830007601938856003702014856003602051w9448NBER20150303183608.0150303s2003 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aHowell, Cameron.10aLegacies in Black and Whiteh[electronic resource]:bThe Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool /cCameron Howell, Sarah E. Turner. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2003.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w9448 aJanuary 2003.3 aSelective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate admissions. Since alumni from selective colleges and universities have, historically, been disproportionately white, admissions policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and universities and have children, however, the potential pool of legacy applicants will change markedly in racial composition. This analysis begins with a review of the history and objectives of the preference for children of alumni in undergraduate admissions. We then consider the specific case of the University of Virginia and employ demographic techniques to predict the racial composition of the pool of potential legacy applicants to the University. Significant changes in the racial composition of classes that graduated from the University of Virginia from the late 1960s through the 1970s foreshadow similar changes in the characteristics of alumni children maturing through the next two decades. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aI2 - Education and Research Institutions2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ1 - Demographic Economics2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aTurner, Sarah E.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w9448.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w944841uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w9448